2. Prophecy of Archimandrite John (Peasant).
— In the New Testament, the place of the Old Testament Jewish people was taken by the Russian people. After the fulfillment of all biblical prophecies over the Jews, biblical prophecies began to be fulfilled over the Russians. Renewing the prophecies of Daniel about one thousand two hundred and ninety and one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days and nights (Daniel 12:11-12), which have already been fulfilled, Saint John the Theologian writes in his Revelation:
“And I will give to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days and nights, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth. And if anyone wants to offend them, fire will come out of their mouth and devour their enemies; if anyone wants to offend them, he must be killed. They have power to shut the heavens so that no rain falls on the earth in the days of their prophecy, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague whenever they want. And when they finish their testimony, the beast coming out of the abyss will fight with them, and defeat them, and kill them, and leave their corpses on the street of the great city, which is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, where our Lord was crucified. And [many] of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their corpses for three days and a half, and will not allow their corpses to be put in graves. And those who live on the earth will rejoice and be glad, and will send gifts to each other, because these two prophets tormented those who live on the earth. But after three and a half days the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they both stood on their feet; and great fear fell upon those who looked at them. And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they ascended to heaven on a cloud; and their enemies looked at them” (Apocalypse 11:3-12).
— Two witnesses are two peoples who testify to the undistorted truth about God, that is, they are two peoples: Old Testament Jews and New Testament Russians. And one thousand two hundred and sixty days and nights are one thousand two hundred years, and these days and nights are life alternately in joys and sorrows, with stripes: a white stripe and a black stripe. The Russian people chosen by God in the New Testament are allotted 1260 years. It's clear as day.
But Bible prophecies would not be a mystery if they clearly indicated the date of the reckoning of time. Only God the Father knows this date. That is why Jesus Christ said: “But about that day and about that hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but only my father” (Matthew 24:36; Mark 13:32).
That is why scientists still cannot establish when the Russian people appeared. This hitherto undiscovered secret serves as convincing evidence that the prophecy about the second witness refers to the New Testament people - the Russians.
But God did not leave us in complete ignorance, otherwise the prophecy would have been useless. So here it is. The Jews were descendants of Noah's most pious son, Shem. They were Semites. Russians come from the most perfect people in New Testament times - from the Aryans.
It is well known that the ancestral home of the Aryans was the northern Black Sea region, which was recognized even by the German fascists, who considered themselves the only Aryans in the world. By the beginning of our era, the majority of Aryans liberated the Black Sea region for their elite. The Aryans called this elite the most glorious, hence the word “Slavs”.
In a number of the most authoritative studies, including in world encyclopedias, it is rightly and unanimously stated that the first historical information about the Slavs dates back to the time when Jesus Christ announced to the Jews that their “house remains empty” (Matthew 23:38; Luke 13:35), that is, God’s covenant with the Jews ended. It was in the first half of the 1st century of the Christian era that the appearance of the Slavs was noted by the most authoritative Roman and Greek historians: Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) and Tacitus (58-117), geographer Claudius Ptolemy (90 - 160). In the works of medieval figures (Cassiodorus, Jordan, Procopius of Caesarea, the inhabitants of the Black Sea region are given the Greco-Roman name: Skalabenoi, Sclaveni). In the 7th century, the Arab writer Abu Malik al-Akhtal called the inhabitants between the Don and the Dniester Skaliba (Skaliba) .
Having multiplied, the Slavs, leaving the Black Sea region to their indigenous elite, went together with the Antes neighboring them in the west to conquer lands in the Balkans and along the Vistula and Odra rivers. Those who settled in the Balkans created a group of southern Slavs, and in the northwest - Western Slavs. The antis dissolved into the southern and northwestern Slavs. That is why, from the end of the 7th century, in written sources, the Slavs who remained on the lands of the Black Sea region received the name instead of “Anta” - “Rus”, “Russians”. This is yet another proof that Russians are God’s chosen people of the New Testament. So the Old Testament, God’s chosen people, being Semites, remained Jews, and then God’s chosen Israel, the Israelis.
In the second half of the 8th century, somewhere in 750-780, the Russians, in fulfillment of the prophecy of the Apostle Andrew that the light of pure Christianity would shine on the hills of the Dnieper - on the site of the future Kiev - from the Black Sea coast, by God's providence, moved to the north and named their lands Rus'. This also shows God’s will and the fulfillment of biblical prophecy. After all, Abraham was called out of the soil of the Chaldeans to settle the future Israelites in the Promised Land (Genesis, chapter 12).
The exact time of the migration of our Russian ancestors from Chaldea (Black Sea region) to the middle Dnieper region (the Promised Land) is hidden from us. If this is so, then, according to the New Testament, the fulfillment of the prophecy about Rus' is “close.”
Historians date the emergence of the state of Northern Rus' to 862 and coincide with the so-called “calling of the Varangians.” In honor of this event, a monument was erected in Novgorod. In 882, the Novgorod prince Oleg captured Kyiv and made it the capital of all Russian lands.
Rus', according to New Testament prophecies, was allotted 1260 days and nights - 1260 years of humiliation and exaltation. If we start from 862, then until the year 2000 (2000 - 862) 1118 years passed, then God-chosen Rus' and the God-loving Russians have time left (1260 - 1118) 142 years.
But the beginnings of Russians being chosen by God are hidden from us by a veil of the unknown. It is possible that God concluded our covenant with the Russians 80 -100 - 120 years earlier. It is possible that the Beast from the Sea has already emerged against the two witnesses: [2]
“And they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like this beast? and who can fight him? And a mouth was given to him speaking proudly and blasphemously, and authority was given to him to continue for forty-two months. And he opened his mouth to blaspheme God, to blaspheme His name, and His habitation, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given to him to make war with the saints and defeat them; and authority was given to him over every tribe and people and tongue and nation. And all who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names were not written in the book of life of the Lamb, who was slain from the foundation of the world. He who has an ear, let him hear” (Revelation 13:7-9).
If the “Beast from the Sea” is the USA, then according to scripture the “Beast from the Dry Land” will come after it... For the New Testament people there will come days of “great tribulation” (Revelation 7:14), “tribulation and temptation” (Matthew 13:21 ; 24:21; Mark 4:17). The holy New Testament people will lose their independence, their land and will begin to live in dispersion.
By sending God's chosen people of the Old Testament into dispersion, God promised to return them to the Promised Land and convert them to the Christian faith. The first has already happened, and the second is happening before our eyes in the form of the “Jews for Christ” movement.
But the restoration of Rus' and the return to the promised land of Russians in the dispersion is not expected. The chosenness of the Jewish people ended with the First Coming of Christ, and the chosenness of the Russian people will end with the Second Coming of Christ and the end of the earthly world.
The candle of the historical existence of Rus' and the Russian people has burned out. It, as befits a candle, flared brightly before dying out and went out. Now from the wick (rod) of this candle there is a trail of smoke that will stretch over its historical expanses and dissolve into oblivion. God come to her! Let it be done to us according to your word!” That's all. With respect - the same hieromonk I.
Revered Elder
Archimandrite John (in the world Ivan Mikhailovich Krestyankin) is considered by the Russian Orthodox Church to be one of the most revered elders of the end of the last - beginning of this century. He began serving God at the age of 6 as a sexton, and at the age of 12 he first expressed a desire to take monastic vows. After school, I studied to become an accountant and for a long time even worked in a secular profession. In 1945, he began church service as a deacon, but 5 years later he was convicted of anti-Soviet propaganda and sent to 7 years of strict regime in the Arkhangelsk camps. From 1967 until his death in 2006, he served at the Pskov-Pechora monastery, where believers from all over the world came to him for blessings and advice. Died at the age of 95. He was buried next to other monks in the catacombs of the Assumption Pskov-Pechora Monastery.
Be careful and pray!
The book “The Monk of God” contains an excerpt written down in his own hand by Elder John on December 4-5, 2000. The prediction is written on squared notebook paper. The text reads: “Stand and see what I have allowed for your admonition without the sudden death of people. Don't look for the culprits! Pray! Always be careful in everything in life!” The original recording is kept in the cell of Father John in the Pechora Monastery.
Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Pskov and Porkhov, in an interview for the Spas TV channel, said that for a long time the words of Elder John’s prophecy remained incomprehensible. Today, Metropolitan Tikhon cannot say with 100% certainty that the prediction refers to the coronavirus epidemic, but he does not exclude such a possibility. The Bishop told the TV channel that the revelation visited Elder John for two nights in a row. But “having seen something terrible” - so terrible that it cannot be voiced, the elder wrote down a warning that contains a recipe for protection from the coronavirus: “do not look for the guilty,” “pray” and “be careful.”
Coronavirus in other predictions
In the context of the spread of a monstrous infection, other prophecies come to mind. Thus, the Tula elder Christopher predicted that “people will get sick a lot,” but asked believers not to despair, for these diseases were sent to “purify your souls.” The prophecies of Schema-Archimandrite Seraphim (Tryapochkin) say that people will suffer martyrdom “at the hands of the Chinese.” The blessed Kiev elder nun Alypia predicted “the execution of nations for their rotten state,” when “dead bodies will lie in mountains,” and there will be no one willing or able to bury them.
Coronavirus predictions also contain the authoritative Revelations of John the Theologian. Theologians and theologians are attracted by the passage from chapter 6 about the Lamb opening one of the seven seals, and the appearance of the Horseman on the white end wearing a crown and with a bow. The crown in this passage is interpreted as “crown”, which is the first part of the name of the epidemic – “CORONAVIRUS”. It turns out that the “white horseman” is COVID-19. Onions are metaphorically viewed as a weapon that has a targeted effect - the virus primarily affects a specific category of people (those with weakened immune systems, those with chronic pathologies, and the elderly).
The Bulgarian clairvoyant Vanga also predicted the coronavirus. True, she believed that the epidemic would begin not from China, but from the Dark Continent. Vanga said that the disease was rapidly attacking the whole world and would claim many human lives. The soothsayer assured that it would take at least 12 months to find a cure.
Chinese sage Liu Bowen predicted coronavirus 600 years ago. He almost accurately guessed the start date of the epidemic - September-October. Considering that the first case of infection was recorded in Wuhan on December 1, 2021, the prophecy is confirmed. With an incubation period of 2 weeks, the infected person became ill at the end of November, which is October according to the Chinese lunar calendar. Liu Bowen also predicted that “those who do good” will be saved, and those who do evil “will not be able to hide” from death.
Rasputin's "white plague"
Grigory Rasputin’s well-known prophecy about the “white plague” today is also inclined to be deciphered as a prediction of the coronavirus epidemic, although previously AIDS, bird and swine flu, as well as Ebola fever were considered the “white plague”. In his prediction, the elder says that the “white plague” will begin after “Sodom and Gomorrah.” Its harbingers will be a change in dresses: men will begin to wear women's clothes, and women will begin to wear men's clothes. “Faceless death” will take the lives of millions, “mountains of corpses will be piled up in squares,” and there will not be enough hands to bury the dead. There is no medicine that can stop the “white plague” that will come to cleanse humanity.
Let us remember that many of Rasputin’s predictions came true. In particular, the death of the royal family and the fall of the monarchy, the bloody change of power and the Civil War, disasters at nuclear power plants.
